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I picked up this little guy on August 5th to foster for a local rescue group. He was dumped in a rural area outside of Houston. After 3 years of fostering, I finally became a foster failure.
His name is Koa (pronounced like Noah, but with a K). It means bold, brave and fearless in Hawaiian. I have an 10.5 year old Dobe named Kai so I wanted to stick with K's and a Hawaiian name. And this pup approaches everything in life as brave and fearless!
After Koa stole my heart, I had his ears cropped with Dr. Crouch at Grand Park on August 10. We've been seeing her staff often for all after care and re-tapes. About 4 weeks ago he developed a pocket in his left ear. GP uses the rolled paper towel method so they just inserted gauze and cotton between the towel post and the ear to push out the pocket. This past Saturday when we went for a retape I did not notice any improvement in the pocket and it also appears that his right ear is starting a pocket. So I decided to take matters into my own hands and went through Zephyr's backer rod with bumpers tutorial (which is excellent by the way!) I also just happened to have the red vetwrap on hand.
My question is, since GP uses a brace that I now know that its part of the problem, are his ears positioned properly after using the backer rod method? His left ear also tips forward a bit. Also, for those of you who used this method with pockets, did it correct it? If so, after how long did you notice any improvement?
Here are a few pictures from last night.
His name is Koa (pronounced like Noah, but with a K). It means bold, brave and fearless in Hawaiian. I have an 10.5 year old Dobe named Kai so I wanted to stick with K's and a Hawaiian name. And this pup approaches everything in life as brave and fearless!
After Koa stole my heart, I had his ears cropped with Dr. Crouch at Grand Park on August 10. We've been seeing her staff often for all after care and re-tapes. About 4 weeks ago he developed a pocket in his left ear. GP uses the rolled paper towel method so they just inserted gauze and cotton between the towel post and the ear to push out the pocket. This past Saturday when we went for a retape I did not notice any improvement in the pocket and it also appears that his right ear is starting a pocket. So I decided to take matters into my own hands and went through Zephyr's backer rod with bumpers tutorial (which is excellent by the way!) I also just happened to have the red vetwrap on hand.
My question is, since GP uses a brace that I now know that its part of the problem, are his ears positioned properly after using the backer rod method? His left ear also tips forward a bit. Also, for those of you who used this method with pockets, did it correct it? If so, after how long did you notice any improvement?
Here are a few pictures from last night.



